Status bar feature requests [was: "new betas are coming but..."]

2018-05-17 07:00:21

New 1.4 betas are coming, they fix bugs, add improvements and are generally welcome but they still miss one highly sought-after feature:- counter of selected tracks, next to total time of selection... As an optionally visible information, similarly to total time and volume un dB.

This is really frustrating, that I had to open Preferences each time I just want to count tracks in selection. Track times are so brilliantly and quickly summed up, why tracks can't be just counted?

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

^ That only works if you have Prefer current selection option enabled. In my case I use Prefer currently playing track and that won't work when music is playing. But total time of selection in status bar works regardless of what selection method is chosen.

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

In my first post I was not clear enough to say, that I want it in status bar, where total time of selection and volume reside right now. It's not the first time when I am asking about it, so I was under false impression, that it is clear, but it wasn't.

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

OK, the box will be made wider.Other than that, what do you think about getting rid of the weeks part and just showing how many days of music you have? It fit more text in less space without dropping much of significant information I think.

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

what do you think about getting rid of the weeks part and just showing how many days of music you have? It fit more text in less space without dropping much of significant information I think.

As long as you don't remove the week in "DURING LAST 6 WEEKS" queries :-o

The presence of a "wk" highlights that a selection has more than seven days, and thus prevents me from misreading "11 days" as one day or "111 days" as eleven. No big deal to me. (There must be people whose fb2k library need four digits for days though.)

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

OK, the box will be made wider.Other than that, what do you think about getting rid of the weeks part and just showing how many days of music you have? It fit more text in less space without dropping much of significant information I think.

Dear Peter,Many, many thanks for this . Simply brilliant

Personally I would prefer to not have the weeks part in this particular element of foobar's UI. Just days would be fine for me. But it doesn't matter much here, as when I look there, I am not selecting more than let's say 200 tracks, mostly 10-30, so I would rarely hit days counter. If I select whole playlists (and thus hit weeks), it means that I am concerned only on mass metadata cleanup, and total time/number of tracks in such selection are not important. That's just my very subjective point of view.

Re: New betas are coming but 1 sought-after feature is still missing...

Yeah, it would be nice if it could be another option to switch on or off along with show volume, show selected tracks etc., i.e. it could have its own space along that bottom strip/status bar, if wanted.